The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-13

WFEHE NECESSITY ENDND Elk
TRAVAGANCE grs

Modern Artistic WorN Db the Al
dque Ware Into the ing Pot
Kn:Gkerbocker Eeirloo Replaced
by New and Ccs,lsets-Sorle
Beautiful and RxpenslPieces.
New YoRE. Nov. Id family sill
t'erF That's an exploded Arstitlon."
The speaker was a nleT OF firm of
New York silversmiths "a man who has
eaten a good many goonnners from a
large assortment of SLIM this country
aud abroad, for he LOGICALLY prepared for
dgsent if not for open fradiction.
There isn't Knickocker heirloom in
New York. he went land more than
that, in point OF real auty, there isn't
royal Inheritance in Eope that can COM
pare with the very bdern plate which
secretary WhitneyASte has on her side
beard in Fifth aven,
Mrs. Mackay hsput Sl35,OOO into sill
verware in Che couof single afternoon.
Did she buy that Vie or any considerable
part of that valuei metal, DO you sup
pose Where She I'D 81 for silver, pure
and simple. she pa $50 or $50 for art. and
it is e1lly within D or fifteen years that art
has tegun to reaie what it is capable of in
silver
People who etertain largely indulge in
very beautiful ster services nowadays, but
it is 81 modern Eare: q. w. Chllds sets
his tsble with pIre that corresponds with
the sta,y he ptys his cook, the Hewitts
havsi'ver the rains put into which would
1lut great mary landscape daubers on can
vas shame Cyrus W. Field, the Loril-
lard the Astors, the Lawrences, Mrs.
Hid-Lord could give the 'ancien regime
zodrnany points about silver; and as for
,ta$ould, his is far enough from being an
oldbmily, but his plate, if new, is as far
ahd of ANYTHING the old silver workers
de3ned' as his dollars count up above form
90 Irtunes
i ry year when the Americas Cup is
01gnt out people say that it is ugly.
TIE is good, honest work about it and
melting Indicative Of intelligence. Itwas
a bsterpiece in its time, but the art of the
nal worker has gone a long way Beyond
ihd dug the huge gulf that everybody re-
ttnizes between that trophy not so very
qand the present time.
Metal working is something in which
hericans are indisputably ahead, and so
7 dQeSQ ULaD Europe IO4lOWS very nuillDIY
dour heels. American silver is above all
lngs decorative, and there is an artistic
Ting in American minds which repudiates
\ service ware of former yesrs, still COM
ln in Europe. where thousands of people
! plate that is absolutely undecorated and
lose value one could reckon at the current
10 Of silver per ounce plus 50 much for the
dnufscture. You can't tell silver of that
It from pewter except for the hall mark
hts old silver, and most of it in this
4ntry, except where it has historic asso-
fions, has gone into the melting pot. The
IT Of the really artistic pieces Of recent
herican make will never be melted any
tre than one would paint out a master
ice for the sake OF saving the canvas to
the brush on again. The value of the
yer is very little compared with the
trLdnanship, There is the famous dinner
Twice that was part of the Morgan collec-
Ia and that the Tiffanys bought back
ain at ale sale. That was thinking in sill
r and it will be worth 8 moderate-sized
ttune in 1880 Most silver is still meant
unitarian purposes, of course, but
trly ell silver is now decorative and much
III artistic